Category Archives: blogs

100 year predictions

September 18, 2007 – 1:55 pm

This Paleo-Future blog looks at predictions from 1900 of what life was to be like in 2000 and beyond. Some of it is strikingly spot on and some of it is just hilarious. The author of the forecast, none other than John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., seems to have an obsession with the not-so-imminent “gigantic foods” [...]

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Cult of the Amateur debate on Fora.tv

August 29, 2007 – 2:40 pm

Fora.tv is my new favorite website. Here is Andrew Keen in a debate about the premise of his newish book “The Cult of the Amateur—How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”.

View The Cult of the Amateur on FORA.tv

By ash | Also posted in aesthetics, culture, internets, trends | Comments (0)

That New Blog Smell

August 14, 2007 – 1:59 pm

Hiya, kids! This is the inaugural post on the Unofficial Matter blog. What’s the point of this, you ask? I’ll tell ya:
1. Archive, simplify, and organize “peripheral” communication
All those links that fly around Matter for interesting, cool, sometimes even important stuff but don’t exactly qualify as specific or work-related enough to go on an [...]

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